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Dec 14, 2016 · Director Richard Kelly revisits the cult classic he made when he was just 25 years old, revealing who was originally cast to play Donnie Darko, how his own childhood provided the inspiration, and how you really pronounce Gyllenhaal.
Oct 26, 2021 · Director Richard Kelly walks us through the making of his head-spinning cult classic Donnie Darko on the movie's 20th anniversary
Oct 28, 2021 · Kelly blurs the consequences of Donnie’s violent actions by making it an ethical problem rather than a moral one, revealing that Cunningham had actually been a paedophile with a child pornography dungeon in his house.
Dec 20, 2016 · It’s been 15 years since “Donnie Darko” first hit theaters, but audiences are still clamoring to see writer-director Richard Kelly‘s 2001 cult classic on the big screen.
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If "some people are just born with tragedy in their blood," as Gretchen intones in Donnie Darko, so are some movies. When Richard Kelly's cult classic debuted at Sundance in 2001, "no one knew what to do with it," Kelly told No Film School. "The knock against this movie coming out of Sundance was that it was impossible to market, unreleasable, or i...
At one point in Donnie Darko, Drew Barrymore's character, a progressive English teacher in a generally conservative school, says, "Of all the phrases in the English language—of all the endless combinations of words in all of history—a famous linguist once said that 'cellar door' is the most beautiful." This is one of many instances in which Kelly's...
Kelly shot Donnie Darkoin 28 days—exactly the length of the film's Tangent Universe. "The first film is a rite of passage," he said. "It's a big deal to get to direct a feature film, especially at the age of 26. I knew I had one shot, and I had to get it right." However daunting, Kelly was up to the task. "I was very confident standing there on the...
"I remember walking in, and Richard [Kelly] was pacing back and forth," Steven Poster, cinematographer of Donnie Darko, recalled of his initial meeting with Kelly. At 26, Kelly was 31 years Poster's junior. Poster was a seasoned DP, having worked with Ridley Scott and on numerous other large productions. "It was obvious he was kind of nervous to me...
In adolescence, the simplified, black-and-white categories of our childhood dissolve. Vast swaths of gray area emerge in their stead. Viewed through the lens of a coming-of-age tale, Donnie's journey involves reckoning with this moral ambiguity in a world that seems to favor the easy answers. When Kitty Farmer (rendered brilliantly by Beth Grant), ...
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Mar 30, 2017 · Quartz caught up with Kelly to delve into why he believes Donnie Darko has such an enduring appeal, and why now was the right time to revisit the film, one that the 42 year old Kelly was just...
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Oct 26, 2021 · In honor of its 20th anniversary, we asked writer-director Richard Kelly to explain the meaning of his modern-classic cult film. He did — sort of. By Jeff Ihaza. October 26, 2021. Jake...
